Casey + Hope = TLA

Murf over at False 45th has a fine post about the Jesus & Mary Chain, with links to live MP3s.

Seeing Hope Sandoval in J&MCs “Sometime Always” video made me reminisce about the wee lass and her hazy, lazy voice.

Yes indeed, I had a serious crush back in the day. Anyone who says guys don’t fantasize about running through the heather chasing butterflies with an ethereal moon pixie are full of shit.

I recently watched an old clip of Mazzy Star performing on “Conan O’ Brien.” After they finish playing, Conan comes over to congratulate the musicians, as he’s wont to do. Hope just stares at him confusedly, like he’s got two heads. I swear she was under sedation for the band’s entire career. Then again, so was I.

I saw them live in 1994. So lovely and enveloping.

In tribute to the queen of narcotic soft rock:

The day before my birthday, 1994:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pneQPW7EOxw

Casey Rea was the Seven Days music editor from 2004 until 2007. He won the 2005 John D. Donoghue award for arts criticism from the Vermont Press Association.

12 replies on “Hope, sweet Hope.”

  2. Oh, man. You add Jables and Kage, on top of Conan, and poor little Hope would have a very tiny and adorable pixie heart attack. And then Casey would cry. On a more Dragonforce related note: my coworker, a youngish fellow in a metal band here in NYC, just came into my cubical to chat, and we’re talking about our prospective weekends, and he said “Oh, yeah, and then on Monday, I’m seeing Dragonforce, which I’m totally stoked about…” No lie. That turned into a discussion on Fantasy Metal and I think we really scared the intern from Long Island whom I was training at the time. Anyway, evidence that Dragonforce is, indeed, something people ARE into.

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